A man in a Guy Fawkes costume strikes fear into the hearts of fascists in 1997, spouting strange verse and using science as a weapon. It could only be a scene from V for Vendetta, a bizarre comic strip that began its life in Warrior, 2000AD's long dead sibling comic book; later V would be completed and published by DC Comics. I reread the graphic novel recently, as part of my research for a post apocalypse travel book. I was looking for themes and locations I could generally pontificate about. For anyone reading who only knows the film, the graphic novel of V for Vendetta takes place after a nuclear war, one in which Britain is mercifully spared when America and Europe are nuked, though the fallout and the problems with growing crops and so on usher in a state of confusion, which the fascist party Norsefire take full advantage of, seizing power by 1992, four years after the A bombs fall. It is a frighteningly fast timeline, especially as V is set in 1997 and 1998; it takes ten ye...